Liam Payne shared poignant One Direction throwback in final Instagram post before his death at 31

Liam Payne commemorated his beloved One Direction bandmates successful his last Instagram station earlier his death.

The What Makes You Beautiful singer, who came to fame connected the X Factor, died contiguous astatine the property of 31.

Tributes person poured successful from his chap X Factor contestants, including Jedward and Rylan Clark.

According to aggregate reports, authorities constabulary confirmed that helium fell from a edifice balcony successful Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In his past Instagram post, shared successful May, helium could beryllium seen posing alongside his erstwhile bandmates Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik and Harry Styles, arsenic good arsenic precocious manager Morgan Spurlock – following his decease earlier this year.

Spurlock directed and produced the group’s 2013 documentary, One Direction: This Is Us, chronicling their emergence to superstardom.

Alongside the post, helium wrote: ‘Rest successful bid Morgan Spurlock it was a pleasance moving with you.’

Fans rapidly flooded the comments of the station with heartfelt tributes to Payne.

JimmySmythesings wrote: ‘The manufacture failed you. Rest successful Piece Liam.’

Cicifilms_xo penned: ‘Rest successful bid Liam, you were my childhood.’

‘Omg can’t judge this news. This can’t beryllium real…,’ Ayesha Khanomm.x said.

As Sophiagr4cee added: ‘I can’t judge his past station was a tribute to idiosyncratic else. I’m successful denial remainder successful bid Liam.’

He reportedly besides shared a glimpse into his vacation connected Snapchat conscionable hours earlier his death, with videos making the rounds connected societal media.

Payne was said to beryllium staying astatine Hotel Cas Sur successful Palermo during his getaway.

His origin of decease has not yet been confirmed – Alberto Crescenti, caput of the Buenos Aires aesculapian exigency services SAME, said connected the tv channel TN: ‘Our relation was to caput determination quickly, springiness aesculapian attention, and effort to resuscitate him, but his injuries were incompatible with life.’

The dad-of-one had besides been successful the assemblage of Horan’s caller concerts successful Argentina conscionable weeks ago.

Payne archetypal auditioned for the X Factor arsenic a solo vocalist successful 2008, astatine the property of 14, but was initially axed astatine the judges’ houses round.

He returned 2 years aboriginal and was placed into a radical with Styles, Malik, Horan and Tomlinson – they yet finished successful 3rd place, beaten by Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson.

Despite not winning the competition, they changeable to worldwide fame pursuing the occurrence of their debut single, What Makes You Beautiful, successful 2011.

They followed this up with hits including Best Song Ever, Steal My Girl, You & I, Kiss You and One Thing.

In 2015, it was revealed that Malik had near the group, with the remaining members continuing arsenic a four-piece.

Later that year, they announced a hiatus, with each 4 members going connected to merchandise solo music.

Payne went connected to merchandise Strip That Down successful 2017, which charted wrong the apical 5 successful the UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand.

His debut album, LP1, came retired successful 2019, and helium was owed to merchandise his 2nd solo medium this year, but it was reportedly scrapped.

‘This time, the scariest portion is that each 1 of these songs is simply a communicative from my life,’ helium antecedently told Q Radio.

‘And they’re truly adjacent to me. I anticipation radical consciousness that done each song, that I really felt immoderate it is you’re feeling close present listening to this.

‘We’ve rewritten a batch of these songs based disconnected the thought of wherever we’re going with this and besides however I’m feeling arsenic a person.

‘I utilized to amusement up to sing a song, past go. Absolutely not this time. We’re going to person amusive with this.’

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